The House Oversight Committee said it had obtained evidence that White House officials, including senior advisers Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, used personal email accounts and messaging applications, a pattern the panel said appeared to violate laws governing White House records.1 hour ago

President Trump on Thursday endorsed Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, marking what would be a sharp U.S. policy shift over the disputed territory decades after Israel seized the land from Syria in the Six Day War.

The NFL resolved collusion grievances with Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid, who led player protests during the national anthem, last month. The settlement is far less than the tens of millions of dollars Mr. Kaepernick, especially, would have likely been owed if his grievance had prevailed.

The start of a Democratic-led House this year also marked the end of an era, as there isn’t a single GOP member considered a backer of abortion rights. Some Republican voters say they don’t hear their views being represented.

The new election for North Carolina’s empty Ninth Congressional District seat is off to a contentious start, with accusations of misconduct followed by a threat of a lawsuit in the first official week of the campaign.

The U.S. Coast Guard has yet to fully recover from the effects of the partial government shutdown, a top officer said, underscoring the service’s vulnerability to political fights in Washington despite its expanding mission.

Fredrick Brennan founded the website 8chan as a home for unconstrained speech devoted to critiquing what he saw as the authoritarianism of leftist culture and politics. Now, he says, it has gone too far.

As state lawmakers consider a broader system of congestion pricing for New York City, a caravan of cabbies came to the Capitol on Wednesday to ask them to use the money it raises to roll back a fee on taxis that took effect last month.

The Supreme Court appeared set to throw out a murder conviction from Mississippi amid evidence of racial bias—after dramatic arguments Wednesday that concluded with a rare question from Justice Clarence Thomas.

One of the colleges in the alleged admissions cheating case, the University of Southern California, named as its new president Carol Folt, former head of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State lawmakers called for new efforts to change admissions for New York City’s eight specialized high schools, after data showed less than 11% of black and Latino students were offered seats there for next fall.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a prison sentence of less than seven years for a white Chicago police officer convicted of killing black teenager Laquan McDonald that many criticized as far too lenient.